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Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – terrific standup’s uphill struggles

www.silverguide.site – The comedian staggers from the soft play area to deliver a philosophical set about Sisyphus, capitalism and motherhood…
Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – terrific standup’s uphill struggles
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Kathy Maniura: ‘I’ve played a paper straw, a nervous smoke alarm and now a middle-aged cycling man’

www.silverguide.site – The sketch comedian, who merges gentle absurdity with drag, on performing in the rain to an audience of two and how the comedy world needs to change…
Kathy Maniura: ‘I’ve played a paper straw, a nervous smoke alarm and now a middle-aged cycling man’
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‘Beautiful form isn’t enough’: National Ballet of Japan – picture essay

www.silverguide.site – Photographer David Levene gained access to the ballet company as they prepared for Ballet Coffret, ahead of a UK tour this month where they will also be performing Giselle at the Royal Opera House. We spoke to one of the principal dancers, Yui Yonezawa…
‘Beautiful form isn’t enough’: National Ballet of Japan – picture essay
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Minnie Driver signs up for lead role as Every Brilliant Thing comes to West End

www.silverguide.site – The actor follows stars including Lenny Henry and Sue Perkins to lead hit show where a single performer enlists the audience’s help to tell ‘funny, sad and unique’ story…
Minnie Driver signs up for lead role as Every Brilliant Thing comes to West End
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The play that changed my life: ‘Michael Gambon’s offstage anarchy as Falstaff made the show better’

www.silverguide.site – When Elliot Levey was cast in Henry IV, Parts One and Two, he didn’t expect water-bombing, corpsing and a character redefined by new teeth…
The play that changed my life: ‘Michael Gambon’s offstage anarchy as Falstaff made the show better’
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‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

www.silverguide.site – After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story…
‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama
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Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?

www.silverguide.site – As Brendan Gleeson prepares for his role in a revival of the 1997 hit, the stars of earlier productions toast its deceptively moving and profound barfly banter…
Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?
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‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves

www.silverguide.site – A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place…
‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves
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Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’

www.silverguide.site – The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back?…
Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’
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Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure

www.silverguide.site – Her Majesty’s theatre, Adelaide; then Arts Centre MelbourneStarring Marina Prior, Christie Whelan Browne and Casey Donovan, this Broadway hit about a teenager who ages four times too fast is both absurd and introspective…
Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure
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Peter James obituary

www.silverguide.site – Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith…
Peter James obituary
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You’re definitely having a laugh! Six hot comedy debuts at Edinburgh fringe 2025

www.silverguide.site – Molly McGuiness is treating audiences to a buffet, sketch troupe Simple Town bring fast-paced fun and Jessica Barton plays Mary Floppins … Here are half a dozen essential acts at the festival…
You’re definitely having a laugh! Six hot comedy debuts at Edinburgh fringe 2025
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No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners

www.silverguide.site – New York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts…
No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners
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The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel

www.silverguide.site – Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia…
The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel
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Valery Panov obituary

www.silverguide.site – Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release…
Valery Panov obituary
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Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew

www.silverguide.site – Callum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in their opposing places…
Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew
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King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

www.silverguide.site – The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems…
King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington
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‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance

www.silverguide.site – Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed…
‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance
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‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme

www.silverguide.site – Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return…
‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme
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Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

www.silverguide.site – Minchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour touring show…
Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit
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